In mathematics, it often happens that baroque, highly technical results disguise beautiful underlying principles. This talk traces the path from the elegant contraction mapping principle to the rather ...

The lectures to be presented as part of the series on the Free Will Theorem are: • March 23-- "Free Will and Determinism in Science and Philosophy" • March 30-- "The Paradox of Kochen and Specker" • ...

University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...